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Design of a permanent magnet generator for a sustainable wind energy capture and storage system
Includes bibliographical references
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2015
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| author | Jagau, Hartmut |
| author2 | Khan, Mohamed Azeem |
| author_browse | Jagau, Hartmut Khan, Mohamed Azeem |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12436 Design of a permanent magnet generator for a sustainable wind energy capture and storage system Jagau, Hartmut Khan, Mohamed Azeem Barendse, Paul Stanley Electrical Engineering Includes bibliographical references The main objective of this dissertation is the detailed design, sizing, analysis and experimental validation of the sustainable wind generator. The proposed machine topology for the generator uses permanent magnets (PMs) from discarded hard disk drives (HDDs). The PM configuration inherently produces a non-uniform air gap flux-density distribution and the pole pitches of the PMs are relatively small. This would result to an unbalanced generator output and a number of stator inter-connecting leads, if conventional tooth-concentrated non-overlapping winding configurations are used. Hence, a concentrated full-pitch overlapping wave winding configuration is developed, which overcomes the aforementioned challenges. The proposed sustainable coreless axial flux generator is then analyzed with classical machine theory and verified by finite element analysis (FEA) software. It is shown that the traditional sizing approach for axial flux machines needs modification to accommodate the design of the proposed machine topology. For the numerical analysis, 3D-FEA is used to verify the 2Dmodel which is subsequently employed in the numerical analyses. 2015-02-11T14:08:43Z 2015-02-11T14:08:43Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12436 eng application/pdf Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Electrical Engineering Jagau, Hartmut Design of a permanent magnet generator for a sustainable wind energy capture and storage system |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Design of a permanent magnet generator for a sustainable wind energy capture and storage system |
| title_full | Design of a permanent magnet generator for a sustainable wind energy capture and storage system |
| title_fullStr | Design of a permanent magnet generator for a sustainable wind energy capture and storage system |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of a permanent magnet generator for a sustainable wind energy capture and storage system |
| title_short | Design of a permanent magnet generator for a sustainable wind energy capture and storage system |
| title_sort | design of a permanent magnet generator for a sustainable wind energy capture and storage system |
| topic | Electrical Engineering |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12436 |
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